American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as “the father of pragmatism”. He was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for thirty years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism.
Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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